Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1858-1909) was a formerly enslaved African American who became an ordained Baptist minister, educator, writer, and anti-lynching activist. Read About Peter Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark Born free in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Clark became an antislavery activist, civil rights advocate, and educator. After moving to Boston in the 1840s, where Clark began her abolitionist efforts and started her teaching career, she spent years educating newly freed people in the South. Read about Ellen Ellen and William Craft This section brings together stories of people, places, and events that influenced the childhood, and perhaps even the escape, of Ellen and William Craft from southern slavery. Read about Ellen and William